Amazon Studios to adapt Iain M Banks "Culture" series
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Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Excession remains my favourite. Not sure how that would translate.
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
They'd have to show the ships as their avatars talking to each other in a simulation.
I think the effects budget will have to be quite substantial.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I can't see how it would be possible to make the Idirans bipedal - their unusual physiology is a fairly detailed aspect of who they are.
It would be the cheapest to film at any rate. Costume drama stuff.
But fuck it yeah let’s have Excession.
mojo pixy
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I was only lamenting the other day how nobody's tried to film one of Ian M Banks' books. I'm now happy to be wrong about this, but as stated already I hope they don't fuck it up. The version of Consider Phlebas in my head, the one from the descriptions in the book, is completely awesome, and frankly by now I'm used to being disappointed when I see a filmed version of a book which has already played out inside my imagination.
Still, I'm going to let myself be a bit excited for now.
Still, I'm going to let myself be a bit excited for now.
It would be a total CGI fest, I think it would be shit.
They have three eyes. You are thinking of the Hommadan.
That’s not how you spell it I suppose, but that’s how I remember the name.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
A certain amount of CGI would be unavoidable. They’d need to spend
a decent amount on it to pull it off.
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
Not on Earth, no. Bilateral symmetry is the main body type for higher animals, but kangaroos for example use their tails as a sort of fifth limb I suppose.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Amazon proper skint. Serious cgi is a bit cheaper now.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
Amazon skint? Really?
Good CGI may be a bit cheaper, but they wouldn’t want to blow it by cutting corners.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
All sort of what i mean. Whatever the price of good CGI - if required - they can afford it.
The Homomdans and the Idirans are both tripedal.
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
Particularly since the boss announced it himself.
Cid
Proper break this time
The minds I guess you could do via judicious use of avatars... Have to be careful, but could work. Kind of use the avatar to key the mind (of the viewer I mean) in to the character at certain points. Though it would be easy to fall into the trap of overusing them, e.g for inter-mind communication.
There was Musk with his naming of the Falcon drone ships too...
Supine
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Cid
Proper break this time
No the Homomdan (I had to google it) have 3 eyes, the Idiran's have 4. Actually the non-human species would be harder to get right than the minds... In the end I think you'd just have to take liberties with Banks' versions, at least if you wanted them to be recognisable characters.
Yossarian
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From what I know of Banks' politics, I don't think he'd have been overjoyed to sell the rights to his work to a stupendously wealthy union-busting Libertarian tech plutocrat in the US.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
He didn't have any problem with having his books on Kindle or Audible and he was comfortable taking money from the Macmillan mega-corp to buy his BMW M5 so I think he would have triumphed in the struggle to come to terms with an Amazon deal.
keybored
Well done. You remember cat good.
Goliath was alright.
I think that's someone's school project . Quite good considering . Not sure about the nu metally soundtrack but the tripedal motion is quite convincing .
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Have most of the books lined up to read, once I finish the Malazan epics.
